Performance

In his performance “Wurz. The Transformation”, Tom Albrecht presents current topics, processes and actors involved in the transformation towards sustainability, interrupted several times by the exclamation “Wurz”. The actors are citizens, organizations and politicians. Homage to Hape Kerkeling on his work “Hurz”.

Object: Model racing car, briquette, wooden frame

A racing car has become stuck in a coal briquette.
Finally, the frenzy with fossil fuels comes to an end. The driver is an involuntary actor in the transformation to sustainability, the artist a conscious one.

Sticker

This sticker goes perfectly with the SUV. Affixed to the rear, everyone can see what is really important in our society, what our hearts are attached to and what we are prepared to do without in times of climate change. Because SUVs are the backbone of the transformation: they create sustainable facts that can no longer be removed.
Become an actor and take it with you: become a climate gluer!
For more honesty in road traffic!

beamer or TV monitor and audio speakers or headphones

Fungi-Fi is a fake brand that brings into our post-truth present a revolutionary, seemingly salvific invention that feels straight out of a sci-fi film.

Fungi-Fi embodies the essence of an ecological dystopia: a possible future in the Anthropocene where humanity addresses CO2 emissions by enslaving the entire plant kingdom to ensure ultra-fast internet connectivity. How? By inventing a Wi-Fi system capable of harnessing the electrical signals of the Wood Wide Web, the mycorrhizal network discovered by Suzanne Simard.

Fungi-Fi is thus a device marketed as an “accelerator of green transformation”, but it goes beyond simple optimism, confronting us with the potential challenges in the human-nature relationship as shaped by techno-scientific progress.

Photo on paper. Cutting. Formation.

My work “Hope” 1 is inspired by the mission of Tony Rinaudo in Niger Republic from 1981 to 1999. Rinaudo’s pioneering technique named Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) contributed to a transformation in the Niger’s people farming, and also to the reforesting of many hectares of land, which previously have been a desert. Rinaudo’s achvement inspires contemporary re-greening movements all over the world. My work itself is
of four parts. Each of the parts is a photo (10 cm x 14 cm) of the Sahara Desert and at the back of the photo – another photo of a four-leaf clover meadow.

Video, colored, without sound

3 video clips from the advertising campaign SAVE THE CLIMATE NOW! of the Austrian Nature Association for Unheard Recovery ÖNFUG

Cutting plot, mirror, vinyl

The object IT’S YOU consists of a mirror on which the title has been applied using a cutting plot. Viewers are literally thrown back on themselves and encouraged to question their own role in the context of the exhibition theme, to discover potential for change and to gain the courage to help their personal utopia get off the ground.

Collage, digital print, framed

The collage “Millworker” shows a technician at a turbine in combination with a mountain stream as a reference to the change in technology. Until the beginning of the 20th century, hydropower was mainly used in mills. Today, electricity is almost always generated with the help of generators.
Operating hydropower plants or building new ones is a critical issue. The majority of plants in Germany are in urgent need of modernization from an ecological point of view. However, their base load capacity and energy efficiency emphasize the importance of hydropower as the backbone of the energy transition.

Fragment of a chair, glued limewood, carved, rasped, and abrased slightly. Hardening Oil, Waxfinish.

Moving, not sitting
Man always tries to impose a function on nature. (Nature = wood = chair). If this function is lost through wear and tear (missing armrest), nature can develop freely again. In this case, it takes up the momentum of the human construction idea and forms a new one. However, it no longer takes into account the requirement to be a piece of seating furniture. It merely follows its natural urge to prosper. In this work I show that the power of nature is stronger than we are, and as an artist I would like to encourage people to question their habits of seeing and understanding it, leading to a more conscious approach to it.
What is hopeful is the fact that if people allow themselves to get involved and then sit down again, they can also discover a feeling of security, of being one with nature.

Collected, cleaned, and sorted plastic waste that is shredded and reprocessed

Plastic decomposes very slowly and is increasingly becoming a burden on our environment. It is urgently necessary to reduce production and find new ways to transform already used plastic in a meaningful way. Instead of sending it to landfills, we can give our plastic waste new life in many different ways.
The modular sculpture “Kunst / Stoff” is made from old yogurt cups, shampoo bottles, bottle caps, and other collected plastic waste. Thanks to the open-source approaches of “Precious Plastic,” a global community dedicated to an alternative system for plastic recycling, the shredded plastic waste has been transformed. The structure, made of various geometric shapes and colors, aims to showcase the great potential still present in plastic waste.

Interactive Upcycling Project with shredded, old plastic bags

The free workshop is aimed at anyone who wants to learn more about the various ways to reuse old plastic. In a short presentation, industrial plastic recycling will be explained as well as critically examined, and innovative, creative projects for anti-capitalist plastic reuse will be introduced. After the informative part, we will get hands-on and create small pouches from old plastic bags.

Video performance

TSAM
The idea of the performance is to remind human beings to control themselves, and eliminate the 3 poisons (According to Buddhist ideology, there are 84.000 negative mental qualities in the human mind, all of which are divided into three main categories of anger, ignorance, and desire. All the negative mental qualities are generated from these three poisons or fires.) that come out of human minds, and focus and concentrate on themselves, to live in harmony with nature and animals as well as creatures of the parallel world, invisible and unknown to human beings, while being enriched with rites of cherishing and appeasing them and demonstrating to live in harmony with everything without any greed since everything has the quality of emptiness and the truths are birth, death, aging and falling ill.

Mixed media on wood

The painting was realized in mixed media. It shows a young girl in a barren landscape supplying water to a plant. During this contact, mathematical formulas appear that symbolize actions based on knowledge.
The picture represents the hope of the youth for a better future also in an ecological sense, which manifests itself in their reason-based actions. In this way, the protagonist becomes a transformer towards a sustainable world.

Video

Scientists and farmers are increasingly relying on technologies such as genetic engineering, synthetic biology, and machine learning to address the challenges of species extinction and global warming. We imagine a speculative ecosystem 30 years from now, where artificial intelligence and biotechnologies work together to create and optimize species to withstand the increasingly hostile environment. From the perspective of an AI simulator, the audience see new variations of animals, fungi, plants, and robots, fly with these engineered and mutated species, and observe the changing ecosystem. This project responds to the trend of technology-assisted solution-making an aims to inspect our tendency to simplify complex ecosystems by treating nature as a system that can be fixed.

Video, 40:07 Min, HD

An experimental video portrait of climate activist Luisa Neubauer, her visions and challenges. The film follows her from the beginnings of “Fridays for Future” to television debates on Anne Will and Markus Lanz.
Using a collage technique, it combines moments of debates and speeches with meditative landscape shots: Water reflections, sunsets, caterpillars, butterflies, bees, fish and ducks. Scenes of everyday life make us dream of an ideal world.
Time seems to stand still, a feeling of confidence arises – as if there was still time to act. Luisa Neubauer inspires as a powerful communicator. Feel the urgency of her actions in contrast to the calm images. Realize how much joy it can bring to ignite the power of transformation in yourself and others.

Assemblage metal, wood, acrylic glass, collages

2 sections: The upper part presents actors and existing sociological and social concepts of the transformation towards sustainability in thematic segments. They form the overall shape of a butterfly or a flower. The metallic faceted framing refers to the video game “Transformers”. The destructive character of the game is “transformed” into something sustainable by the constructive content. The lower section of thought bubbles stands for the basis that precedes any change achieved: fantasy, ideals, visions, mind games, a sense of possibility, a view of opportunities, the power to imagine better ecological conditions. This area is illustrated by 2 examples of emission-free individual travel in myths and fairy tales: we recognize the familiar witches’ broom and flying carpet – in a sense the spiritual progenitors of sustainable mobility.

print, pencil lines, paper

arise
build up
expand
continue
today
sky blue and purple

INSTALLATIVE PERFORMANCE dried vegetation of wetlands

The typha plant (cattail) is introduced as a protagonist of remoistered wetlands: In paludicultural productions it is orchestrated to transform 37% of agricultural carbon emissions to compostable building and design material ressources, accepting breeding waterbirds’ habitats as a role model. Its lightweight but stable capillar fabric textures enable microorganic breathing filter activities up to 1,5 m under water as well as giving relevant cathartic cellular breathing impulses to the performing body for transforming some toxic tensions of extractive contemporary habits.